Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her
Published on: 2025-05-23 11:45:12
As if the dating world wasn't already nightmarish enough, artificial intelligence seems to be making it worse — or, at the very least, weirder.
In an editorial for the Financial Times, reporter Jemima Kelly was flummoxed when a recent date admitted that he had instructed ChatGPT to write a psychological profile on her.
Specifically, Kelly's unidentified suitor dispatched ChatGPT's buzzy new "deep research" tool to give him insights into her personality. The chatbot ended up spitting out a whopping eight pages of information about the reporter, who like most others in her field, has thousands of published articles for the chatbot to work with.
Ironically, the ChatGPT-generated profile wasn't all that bad, with both accolades ("intellectually curious, independent-minded, and courageous in her convictions") and criticisms ("psychologically, one might describe Kelly as a [skeptic] with a conscience") that mostly made her seem astute.
Initially, the reporter said she "didn’t really mind
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